Project Management Report: HCL Project Life Cycle and Analysis

This report delves into the core concepts of project management, examining the characteristics of projects, the roles of stakeholders, and the purpose of essential documents like the Project Initiation Document (PID). It outlines the project life cycle, detailing the initiation, planning, execution, control, and closure phases, using a case study involving HCL. The report covers key knowledge areas such as project integration, scope, time, cost, quality, resource, communication, risk, and stakeholder management. It also explores the attributes of a project manager, the importance of feasibility studies, and the components of a project plan. The report emphasizes the importance of each phase, providing a comprehensive overview of project management principles and practices, including resource and financial planning, quality control, and risk management. The report concludes with project closure and final delivery, highlighting the importance of effective project completion.

MANAGING
PROJECT
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Table of Contents
TASK 1...........................................................................................................................................3
Characteristics of any project and stakeholder meaning........................................................3
Purpose of Project Initiation Document.................................................................................3
State the purpose of feasibility...............................................................................................3
List the nine (9) knowledge areas in Project Management....................................................4
attributes or characteristics of a project Manager...................................................................4
Time Frame............................................................................................................................5
TASK 2...........................................................................................................................................5
Project initiation phase...........................................................................................................5
Planning Phase review............................................................................................................9
Executing the project............................................................................................................12
Control of project.................................................................................................................13
Project closure......................................................................................................................14
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................15
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TASK 1
Characteristics of any project and stakeholder meaning
There are 6 different characteristic of managing the project in the organization. Different
characteristic are purpose, aim, objective, scope, time and deliverables.
Stakeholders of the project are all the parties who generally used to possess any sort of
the interest in the outcome of the project (Bao, Shi and Kalra, 2017). Different stakeholders of
the project are the project manager, sponsor, project owner employee etc. To manage the interest
level of different stakeholder and to understand the role and responsibility of different
stakeholder analysis is generally performed in the organization. Stakeholder analysis generally
gives the information about the way interest of different stakeholder can be maintain as it is
important task in the process of project success.
Purpose of Project Initiation Document
PID generally works as guiding document to the project manager throughout the process
of carrying out the project in the organization (Edwards, Serra and Edwards, 2019). Main
purpose behind making of PID is to records the variety of the different information which is
requires to define and plan the project in the organization. Another purpose of PID is to define
the project mandate and define the Aim and objective of the project. There are varieties of
different element of PID are project justification, this explains the rationale of conducting the
project. Communication plan which defines the way communication will take place. Project
plan, defines primary activity which will be carried out in the project.
State the purpose of feasibility
Feasibility studies generally define as a group of the activity which used to explain the
convenient level of completing the project in the organization (Low, Ismail and Tan, 2018).
There are varieties of the different sort of benefit which will be seen by the project due to
conduction of feasibility study in the project. Some of the benefits of feasibility study are as
follows:
 Feasibility study in the project used to help the company in addressing where and how
project will operate. On the basis of the same different decisions are being made to
overcome the same in the better way in the organization.
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 Feasibility studies also assist company in identifying the variety of the obstacles which
will be seen by the organization in the long run of the business. These will eventually
assist the management in making different decision to overcome the same in the long
run.
List the nine (9) knowledge areas in Project Management
There are variety of different sort of the knowledge which we provided by the project
management in project. Some of them are as follows:
1. Project Integration management
2. Project Scope management
3. Project Time management
4. Project Cost management
5. Project Quality management
6. Project Resource management
7. Project Communication management
8. Project Risk management
9. Project Stakeholder management
There are varieties of the different benefit which are seen of the same in the project. Importances
of different knowledge area are as follows:
Project time management aspect generally used to provide the importance for the company in
understanding the time which project manager and team has to complete. These heal project in
planning different accordingly in the project (Mamédio and Meyer, 2020).
Project resource management aspect used to provide the importance for company in having
information about the resources which they have to complete the project for the client. This
assist project team in optimum utilization of resources in the project.
attributes or characteristics of a project Manager
There are variety of different sort of attributes and characteristic which need to be shown by
project manager in the project. Characteristic of manager are as follows:
 Decision making
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 Patience attribute
 Leadership attribute
 Communication attribute
 Team building attribute
It is very important to close or end project properly as closing the project in the better way help
the project manager in presenting outcome of the project in the better way in front of the other in
market.
Time Frame
Task Mode Task Name Duration Start Finish Predecessors
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A 6 wks Wed 8/12/20 Tue 9/22/20
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B 7 wks Wed 8/12/20 Tue 9/29/20
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C 5 wks Wed 9/23/20 Tue 10/27/20 1
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D 6 wks Wed 9/23/20 Tue 11/3/20 1
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E 4 wks Wed 10/28/20 Tue 11/24/20 2,3
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F 7 wks Wed 11/4/20 Tue 12/22/20 4
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G 4 wks Wed 12/23/20 Tue 1/19/21 5,6
TASK 2
Project Life cycle
To complete the project for the HCL, project has to go from four different stages of project life
cycle to be successful for the company (Medina, 2018). Different stages of project life cycle are
as follows:
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Project initiation phase
 Introduction/ Background
In the current scenario technology has changed very drastically and it has
changed the way different organization generally used to look at completing different
operation of the company. For the same reason New Euro Centre will be created in the
Docklands area of London. This will eventually help the center in having the specific
aspect for the It facility for marketing. Booking, TV and telephonic provision for
conference and meeting center in organization.
2.0 Project Aim
“To construct new euro center by integrating different IT infrastructure into the same”
3.0 Project Objective
 To incorporate variety of different IT infrastructure for marketing, booking and
TV & telephone provision for conference hall.
4.0 Stakeholder
 Project Manager: Project manager are the one who used to has the sole
responsibility of carrying out variety of different activity at the workplace. They
generally used to provide the different guideline and on the basis of the same
different event taken place in project (Ray, 2019).
 Project sponsor: Project sponsor are the individual or the institution which
provide the different sort of the finance to the project team member. On the
basis of the same different activity are being carried out in the project. They
generally used to provide the external environment information to project
manager as well.
 Supplier: They are another sort of the stakeholder in the project, they generally
used to provide different raw material or semi finished product. On the basis of
the same different decision are taken to finish the project for the owner in better
way.
 Project team: They are the one whom will be following the different
instruction in the project and on the basis of the same different activity will be
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carried out in the manner that it used to help in achieving the objective of the
project in better way.
5.0 Target Audience
 Looking at the target audience for the project it has been identified that teen
consumer I the market will be attracted toward the project as most of the teen
consumer in the market are generally attracted toward the IT infrastructure in
the market in the long run.
 Another Audience which will be targeted will be the employee of new office as
they are the one whom will be using the different IT infrastructure in the
market. So company will look to provide convenient IT infrastructure in
market.
5.0 Scope
This project will open up the variety of the scope in term of enhancing the number of
the consumer who generally used to visit the conference centre. This will also open the
good sort of scope for the company in presenting the variety of the service of the
company in the better way in front of the consumer (Samset and Christensen, 2017). It
will also help the Euro center in getting better resources to understand the external and
internal environment of the company in the better way.
6.0 Project Delivery
This project will be offering a new Euro center at Docklands area of the London. Hall
which will be constructed will be included with the provisions of different IT facility
for marketing, booking and different technical provision in conference and activity
hall.
Alternative
 Project manager has to make sure that they used to make the variety of the
alternate plan in the project. First element which has to be considering by the
organization is in regards of the source through which variety of the different
sort of raw material to construct the project in the market.
 Another sort of alternate plan which has to be made by the project manager in
the market is in regards of the Human resource management in the market. As it
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may happen that project is not able to manage Human resource in the better
way in the project (Sanghera, 2019).
Task Mode Task Name Duration Start Finish Predecessors
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Initiation 35 days Wed 8/12/20 Tue 9/29/20
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Team building 14 days Wed 8/12/20 Mon 8/31/20
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Identifying roles and
responsibility 12 days Tue 9/1/20 Wed 9/16/20 2
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Assigning roles to team
member 12 days Thu 9/17/20 Fri 10/2/20 3
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Planning 70 days Wed 8/12/20 Tue 11/17/20
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Project requirement
determination 18 days Mon 10/5/20 Wed 10/28/20 4
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Budget forming 17 days Thu 10/29/20 Fri 11/20/20 6
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Charter plan formation 13 days Mon 11/23/20 Wed 12/9/20 7
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Critical factor
understanding 22 days Thu 12/10/20 Fri 1/8/21 8
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Execution 55 days Wed 8/12/20 Tue 10/27/20
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Employee skill
development 6 days Mon 1/11/21 Mon 1/18/21 9
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Allotment of resources 25 days Tue 1/19/21 Mon 2/22/21 11,9
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Performance management 8 days Tue 2/23/21 Thu 3/4/21 12
Auto Performance management 16 days Fri 3/5/21 Fri 3/26/21 13
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Schedule
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Monitoring 40 days Wed 8/12/20 Tue 10/6/20
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Test conduction 8 days Mon 3/29/21 Wed 4/7/21 14
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Bug identification 12 days Thu 4/8/21 Fri 4/23/21 16
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risk management 8 days Mon 4/26/21 Wed 5/5/21 17
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Monitoring resources 12 days Thu 5/6/21 Fri 5/21/21 18
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closure 25 days Wed 8/12/20 Tue 9/15/20
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identification of
compatibility 14 days Mon 5/24/21 Thu 6/10/21 19
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review of project 7 days Fri 6/11/21 Mon 6/21/21 21
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Final project deliver 4 days Tue 6/22/21 Fri 6/25/21 22
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Planning Phase review
Resource plan
Resource plan of the project is define variety of the different sort of the resources which will be
require to carry out the project in the efficient way. As for conducting the project for HCL
company project manager will be recruiting 75 Human resources in the organization. Two
compiler officers will be hired as legal resources of the project (Sundararajan, and Tseng, 2017).
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Technological resources of the company will be procured from the different supplier in the
market. Operational and marketing are another sort of the resources which will be procures.
Work breakdown structure
Financial plan
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Financial plan of the company is generally define as a plan which generally used to define the
amount of money which will be require to complete the project in the market. All the resources
will be procure from the same amount in the market. For the current project £200,000.00 has
been allotted to complete the project efficiently.
Quality plan
Quality plan of the company used to define the way different quality of the project can be
maintain in the long run of the business. For managing the Quality of the project in the market
benchmarking tool will be used by the project manager in the project. Project manager or
management team will be setting the different benchmark in regards of the project activity and
on the basis of the same original performance will be compared to find out the deviation and
improve the quality of the activity carried out in the project.
Risk plan
Risk Plan generally used to describe the variety of the risk which may occur in the project and
can impact the outcome of the project. For the current prject there were variety of the different
sort of the risk which was also in front of the project. Scarcity of the fund and not proper usage
of resources in the project result in wastage of resources was another sort of risk in front of the
project manager.
Acceptance plan
It is the type of the plan which generally used to define whether the project was successful or not
in the market. This plan generally considers looking at the situation whether the project or the
plan of the company is liked by the people or not will be assessed to find out the success or
failure of the project in the market.
Executing the project
After going through the initiation and planning phase of the project Executing phase of the
project used to occur. Execution of project will include these sort of the activity in the project.
Time – This element of the execution project it used to define the time which will be
required to complete the project in the market. To complete and execute the project in the
market it will require the minimum of 6 month for completion of the project.
Quality- This is another important element which need to be consider by the project
manager is the Quality of the project. As organization has to make sure that company is able to
manage the work in the proper as well as in the effective manner (ul Hassan, Ahmad and
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